Imagine you lived in a country which last year had 3,000 allegations of police corruption. Worse, imagine that of these 3,000 allegations only half of them were properly investigated — because for police officers in this country, corruption was becoming routine. Imagine that the police increasingly used their powers to crack down not on criminals but on anyone who dared speak out against them. What sort of a country is this? Well, it’s Britain I’m afraid — where what was once the finest, most honest service in the world is in danger of becoming rotten.

Some of this was revealed in a little-noticed report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, which went on to deliver some even more shocking news. Nearly half of 17,200 officers and staff surveyed said that if they discovered corruption among their colleagues and chose to report it, they didn’t believe their evidence would be treated in confidence and would fear ‘adverse consequences’. This appalling lack of protection for whistle-blowers — often amounting to persecution — has become commonplace throughout the public services and creates a climate in which dishonesty and malpractice flourish.

The second report, compiled by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, bears this out. It says there has been a sharp increase over the past five years in the number of police officers dealing heroin, cocaine and amphetamines and an equally startling rise in the number of officers abusing their power ‘for sexual gratification’ — in other words bullying or cajoling suspects, witnesses and even victims into having sex with them.

Just this week, in fact, it emerged that the Met suspended 73 coppers, community support officers and other staff on corruption charges in the past two years. They cited drug crimes, bribery, theft, fraud, sexual misconduct and — everybody’s favourite — un-authorised disclosure of information. Eleven were convicted in court, but what happened to the others? The Met spokesman said rather blandly that some were allowed to resign or retire (presumably with full pension rights) and some were dismissed.

This rise in corruption and the apparent reluctance of police chiefs to fight it is a toxic combination. As ever, chief constables blame lack of resources for not being able to pursue inquiries into claims of malpractice. But what could be a greater priority than ensuring that their own officers are not breaking the law? These same police chiefs seem to find endless funds to pursue ancient sex abuse allegations, chase people who say unpleasant things on Twitter and prosecute journalists.

The vast majority of Britain’s police do a sometimes extremely arduous job with honesty, skill and good humour. But corruption left unchecked can infect entire forces. Anyone who doubts this need only study the lessons of the not-too-distant past.

Forty-five years ago the Times splashed across its front page a sensational story that led ultimately to what became known as ‘The Fall of Scotland Yard’. Under the headline ‘London policemen in bribe allegations’, it revealed a tale

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The story, backed by taped conversations, bluntly accused three Yard detectives of planting evidence and taking back-handers from criminals ‘in exchange for dropping charges, being lenient with evidence in court, and for allowing a criminal to work unhindered’. If it had been just those three rogue officers, the story might quickly have been forgotten. But the tapes hinted at a far more endemic culture of graft and criminality.of corruption that came as a profound shock to a nation accustomed to seeing its constabulary through the prism of Dixon of Dock Green and Z Cars. A leading criminal lawyer of the time remarked: ‘It was like catching the Archbishop of Canterbury in bed with a prostitute.’Screen Shot 2015-03-06 at 10.57.47

Over the next few years, the Obscene Publications Squad was exposed as a tawdry protection racket extracting regular tithes from pornographers and Soho club-owners; drugs squad officers were shown to be running illegal cannabis deals; and half the Flying Squad was in the pay of criminals. These were not the clandestine activities of a few low-ranking detectives on the take. Whole squads were involved and the seniority of some of those taken down at the Old Bailey was shocking. In the words of trial judge Mr Justice Mars-Jones, it was ‘corruption on a scale that beggars description’.

The exposures of these corruption rackets had one thing in common — they were all revealed in the first place by the efforts of Britain’s free press. But these journalists could not have achieved all they did without the help of whistleblowers. Some of these were pornographers and criminals tired of being milked and intimidated, but others were rank and file police officers disgusted by the greed and criminality of so many of their peers.

The tragedy is that 40 years on, honest policemen in a similar position would fear arrest and imprisonment for even approaching a journalist without permission, despite the clear public interest in their doing so.

The police appear to be retreating into a bunker of secrecy and paranoia where all news must be ‘managed’ and freedom of information is considered a threat. On its website — alongside some vacuous rubbish about ‘declaring total war on crime’ — the Met claims to be committed to carrying out its duties with ‘humility’ and ‘transparency’.

Could anything be further from the truth? With its constant leak inquiries, harassment of whistleblowers and journalists, and scandalous misuse of terror legislation to tap the phone records and emails of ordinary citizens, the Met is probably more authoritarian and opaque than at any time in modern history. This culture comes directly from the top.

North Wales Police CC Mark Polin, Freemason, liar, this man authorised the illegal arrests of my wife, my self and the raid on my home and subsequent seizure of all our goods including our childrens toys and all at the bequest of his Freemason colleague David Jones

North Wales Police
Mark Polin
Liar
Corruption
Freemason

DCC Gareth Pritchard

Inspector Ian Verburg, Freemason, purposely protected the authors of the troll blog ‘Thoughts of Oscar’, and lied to all those who complained about that blog.

DS John Hanson, Freemason, lied about his protection of the troll blog ‘Thoughts of Oscar’, and its authors, promised David Jones to have me arrested at his request, this worm is a liar and is now in charge of North Wales Police Professional standards department, what a joke.

Inspector Emma Naughton

Dylan Moore, solicitor at David Jones solicitors in Llandudno, Freemason, says he never uses social media and does not have a mobile phone? co-author to the troll blog ‘Thoughts of Oscar’, deliberately lied in police statements, slimy little worm

Arfon Jones, Freemason, ex copper, use to drive ex Chief Superintendent Gordon Alnglsea to the home where he abused young boys, now the police and crime commissioner for North Wales, its a bloody joke

David Jones MP & Janet Finch Saunders AM

Police informant Nigel Roberts, informing.

Nigel Roberts, police informant and internet troll

Internet trolls Nigel & Wendy Roberts

PC 1854 Gary James of North Wales Police.

Proof the liar David Jones MP, comunicated regualy with his troll blog ‘Thoughts of Oscar’ which was published by Nigel Roberts, Jones officially states he has never had anything to do in any way at all with that blog

PCSO Chris Perkins

PCSO Pamela Hayer, liar

PCSO Pamela Hayer, liar

PCSO Sarah Curry

North Wales Police Officers searching my home, after false allegations made against me by the MP for Clwyd West & Freemason David Jones & CO

Sandcastles, home of the trolls

David Jones Solicitors, work place of the troll Dylan Moore

Inspector Ian Verburg, lied about knowing who where the authors of Thoughts of Oscar, refused to help those affected.